In my recent experiments with Wayland, I find my self still very much trying to decide on a decent panel.

At present, I am wrestling with the configs for sfwbar - mainly because the documentation seems fairly sparse. Lots other people seem to use it, though, so it must be possible to figure it out.

I’m currently struggling with three particular aspects:

1. How to prevent windows maximising over or under the bar. At the moment the bottom of all my windows is hidden under the panel.

2. Configuring some sort of network data for the widget. At the moment I have a very simple LAN icon which, as a tooltip, displays static information that I could easily obtain with a simple “ip a”. What I really want is, at the very least, some way of monitoring when my interface is transferring data in one direction or the other. If it could tell me the amount of data that would be perfect. All I’ve been able to figure out so far from what docs there are is that it might be something to do with a NetStat function. How to use this function, however, is far from clear and I can’t find examples.

3. How to get a bar on each of my monitors that, ideally, displays icons for only the windows on that monitor.

Any help gratefully received - thanks in advance!